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  • General Motors, Bioservo Enter Robotic Glove Tech Licensing Agreement
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    General Motors, Bioservo Enter Robotic Glove Tech Licensing Agreement

    Bioservo Technologies has licensed a robotic glove technology built by General Motors and NASA with the intent to repurpose the device for healthcare and manufacturing applications. The licensing deal between the two companies allows Bioservo to integrate its Soft Extra Muscle technology to the battery-powered wearable RoboGlove in an effort to build a grasp assist device that will work to help address human operator […] More

  • 5 Veteran-Owned Firms Win Spots on Navy Construction IDIQ
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    5 Veteran-Owned Firms Win Spots on Navy Construction IDIQ

    The U.S. Navy has awarded five service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses positions on a potential five-year, $30 million contract to perform construction work in Guam. Global Engineering Services, M-80 Systems, Pacific Industrial Coatings, Pearl Construction Environmental Service and Relyant Global will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Navy said Wednesday. The multiple-award contract […] More

  • ICF Awarded 2 California DOT Environmental Services Contracts
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    ICF Awarded 2 California DOT Environmental Services Contracts

    California’s Transportation Department has awarded ICF International a pair of three-year contracts worth $13.6 million combined to provide environmental and biological support services for department’s district projects in the state. ICF said Friday it will perform on-call environmental services to support Caltrans’ transportation infrastructure development, construction and maintenance projects in District 8 as well as on-call biological services to the District 1 Willits Bypass project. […] More

  • CACI to Continue Dev’t, Maintenance of DoD Financial Management System; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI to Continue Dev’t, Maintenance of DoD Financial Management System; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a three-year, $37 million contract to continue its development and maintenance support services for the Defense Department‘s Oracle-developed enterprise resource planning application. CACI will deliver architecture, compliance and configuration management services for Oracle’s Global Model technology as part of the Defense Agencies Initiative’s efforts to transform DoD financial management and accounting, CACI said Thursday. […] More

  • Steve Jurczyk: NASA Seeks University Partners to Complement Space Tech Mission Directorate Research Efforts
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    Steve Jurczyk: NASA Seeks University Partners to Complement Space Tech Mission Directorate Research Efforts

    NASA has asked for proposals from universities in search of ideas for multi-disciplinary university-led research efforts the agency deems Space Technology Research Institutes space technology mission directorate’s research grants and project opportunities. The space agency said Friday the Space Technology Research Institutes Appendix solicitation seeks STRIs to serve as a platform for coordination among experts from various fields in a single distributed research structure. NASA […] More

  • Lockheed Picks Triumph Group to Supply F-35 Engine, Structural Components
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    Lockheed Picks Triumph Group to Supply F-35 Engine, Structural Components

    Lockheed Martin has awarded multiple contracts to Triumph Group to provide structural and engine components for the F-35 Lightning II program. Triumph said Friday its precision components business will supply aircraft engine mounts, bulkheads, longerons and wing ribs to Lockheed through 2021. “The F-35 program has afforded us the opportunity to demonstrate that Triumph can compete on higher-level subassemblies,” said Rick Rosenjack, executive vice […] More

  • Raytheon to Integrate Radar Detection Tool With General Atomics Predator B; Linden Blue Comments
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    Raytheon to Integrate Radar Detection Tool With General Atomics Predator B; Linden Blue Comments

    Raytheon will integrate its radar detection platform with the General Atomics-built Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft. The Advanced Radar Detection System designed by Raytheon Deutschland GmbH is designed to perform land- and maritime-based electronic intelligence operations as well as detect radiofrequency emitters, General Atomics said Thursday. “Adding an ELINT role to Predator B by integrating ARDS will help our customers […] More

  • Air Force Picks Millennium Engineering and Integration for Pad Safety Support IDIQ
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    Air Force Picks Millennium Engineering and Integration for Pad Safety Support IDIQ

    Millennium Engineering and Integration Co. has won a $21.5 million contract to identify and mitigate risks associated with the systems used in the U.S. Air Force space launch pad. The Defense Department said Thursday Millennium Engineering will oversee safety operations, support launch countdown, address anomalies, perform safety inspections, conduct operations safety reviews for critical procedures […] More

  • Dakota Consulting to Advise US Air Force’s Logistics, Force Protection Directorate; Lokesh Sayal Comments
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    Dakota Consulting to Advise US Air Force’s Logistics, Force Protection Directorate; Lokesh Sayal Comments

    Dakota Consulting Inc. has won a five-year, $34 million contract to provide advisory and assistance services to the Headquarters Air Force Material Command’s directorate of logistics, civil engineering and force protection. The company said June 30 it will work with partners MCR Federal, Morgan Borszcz Consulting, Quantech Services and Enterprise Ventures to support the A4 […] More

  • BAE Secures Navy Comm, Computer O&M Services Contract Option
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    BAE Secures Navy Comm, Computer O&M Services Contract Option

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has received a potential $12.9 million task order modification to provide operations and maintenance support to the U.S. Navy ‘s communication, electronic and computer systems. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification exercises a one-year option on a previously awarded contract to BAE Systems Inc. and will increase cumulative task order value to $34 million. DoD noted the […] More

  • Miles & Stockbridge Adds Ted Ebert to Washington Contracts & Compliance Advisory Team
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    Miles & Stockbridge Adds Ted Ebert to Washington Contracts & Compliance Advisory Team

    Miles & Stockbridge has hired Ted Ebert, former assistant general counsel of Lockheed Martin‘s technical service business segment, to advise clients on contracting, mergers and acquisitions and compliance as part of its D.C. office team. Ebert will also provide advisory support on risk management and internal investigations as well as general counsel outsourcing services, Miles & Stockbridge said Wednesday. “With his […] More

  • Noblis’ Roger Mason, CIA Vet Carmen Medina Join US Geospatial Intell Foundation as Board Members
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    Noblis’ Roger Mason, CIA Vet Carmen Medina Join US Geospatial Intell Foundation as Board Members

    Roger Mason Jr., senior vice president of national security and intelligence at Noblis, and MedinAnalytics founder Carmen Medina have joined the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation as members of the board of directors. Mason and Medina will join the other 25 members of USGIF’s board and will serve a three-year term, USGIF said Thursday. Mason, who also serves […] More